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The E-Myth: How Do You Get People to Do What You Want?

Twitter Summary:  How do you get people to do what you want?  It comes down to feelings.

Principle

So I’ve written a few posts about some key points of Michael Gerber’s book The E-Myth over the last few weeks.  I’ve written about the difference between abdicating and delegating, how creating a system of doing business is the solution to most small business problems, and how relying on systems helps ordinary people do extraordinary things.  Today I want to segue into a logical follow up to the systems posts.  Once you have your systems set up for your small business, the key question then becomes, how do you get people to execute the systems you’ve developed?  Or in other words, how do you get people to do what you want?

Gerber writes that the degree to which people “do what you want...

The E-Myth: How Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary

Twitter Summary:  A 19-yr old kid from Hawaii learned to speak Spanish thanks to a system that changes something ordinary into something extraordinary.

Principle

In the previous post I wrote about Michael Gerber’s crazy idea that the success of small businesses is founded on creating systems that produce consistent results.  Today I want to write about how a system can take ordinary people and help them do extraordinary things.

Gerber writes in his book The E-Myth that a business which is dependent on highly talented people can feel shackled to those talented individuals.  What is worse, the high quality results of these highly talented individuals are hard to replicate consistently.  In the end, the success of a small business is NOT dependent upon the people it hires, but the consist...